Dance With The Fireflies
Do you remember fireflies? Imagine stepping out on your porch on a warm July night. It’s about 8:oo, your dinner has settled, and it is pitch dark outside. But, wait, there in front of you – you see a small flashing light –then another – then another. Any thoughts you had of taking care of the dishes in the sink are gone.
Mesmerized by the dancing light you experience a lightness you have not felt since you were a child. Being in the present is easy because your attention is captured in the most natural way.
In the zen philosophy one is considered to be “on the right track” when one feels as if they are connected to whatever they are doing in the moment. Well, these magical fireflies have swept you up in their dance –so, I guess that makes this an officially zen-like experience.
As Zen philosopher Alan Watts so eloquently puts it, “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”